Drilling Equipment

Author: Pål Skalle, NTNU

Assistant producer: Reza Rahmani
 Drilling Equipment

General Rig:
Hoisting equipme
nt
The machine used to drill a wellbore. In onshore operations, the rig
Rotation equipme includes virtually everything except living quarters. Major
nt components of the rig include the mud tanks, the mud pumps, the
derrick or mast, the drawworks, the rotary table or topdrive, the
Mud circulation e drillstring, the power generation equipment and auxiliary equipment.
quipment

Drill pipe & BHA

Jackup
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Land rig
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Drillship

Semisubmersible Submersible

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General

Hoisting equipme 1. Crown Block and Water Table 1

nt 2. Catline Boom and Hoist Line
3. Drilling Line
4. Monkeyboard 2
Rotation equipme
nt 5. Traveling Block 4
6. Top Drive
7. Mast
Mud circulation e 8. Drill Pipe
quipment 5
9. Doghouse 3
14
10. Blowout Preventer
6 7 25 13
Drill pipe & BHA 11. Water Tank
12. Electric Cable Tray 15
12
9
Safety equipment 13. Engine Generator Sets 8 16
14. Fuel Tank 11
15. Electrical Control House
Rig facilities 17
16. Mud Pumps
17. Bulk Mud Component Tanks 18
23
18. Mud Tanks (Pits) 10
19. Reserve Pit
20. Mud-Gas Separator 20 21
21. Shale Shakers
22. Choke Manifold
22
23. Pipe Ramp
24. Pipe Racks 19
24
25. Accumulator

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General Mud Circulating System:

Hoisting equipme
nt Hose
15
Kelly
17 16
Rotation equipme Stand pipe
nt
BOP
Mud circulation e Annulus 1
quipment Drillpipes
14
Drill collars 2 13
Drill pipe & BHA 3
Drill bit
12
Safety equipment Return line 4

Shale shaker 11

Rig facilities Seprator

Desilter
Mud mixer
5
Mud tanks
6
Mud-mixing Shake
Mud pumps
7
Discharge line
8 9 10

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General Drawworks:
Hoisting equipme
nt The machine on the rig consisting of a large-diameter steel spool,
brakes, a power source and assorted auxiliary devices. The
Rotation equipme primary function of the drawworks is to reel out and reel in the
nt drilling line, a large diameter wire rope, in a controlled fashion.
The reeling out of the drilling line is powered by gravity and
Mud circulation e reeling in by an electric motor or diesel engine.
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General Travelling block:

Hoisting equipme
nt

The set of sheaves that

Rotation equipme
nt move up and down in the
derrick. The wire rope
Mud circulation e
threaded through them is
quipment threaded (or "reeved")
back to the stationary
Drill pipe & BHA crown blocks located on
the top of the derrick. This
Safety equipment pulley system gives great
mechanical advantage to
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the action of the wire rope
drilling line, enabling
heavy loads (drillstring,
casing and liners) to be
lifted out of or lowered into
the wellbore.

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General Crown block:

Hoisting equipme
nt The fixed set of pulleys (called sheaves) located at the top of the
derrick or mast, over which the drilling line is threaded. The
Rotation equipme companion blocks to these pulleys are the traveling blocks. By using
nt two sets of blocks in this fashion, great mechanical advantage is
gained, enabling the use of relatively small drilling line (3/4 to 1 1/2
Mud circulation e in. diameter steel cable) to hoist loads many times heavier than the
quipment cable could support as a single strand.

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General Hook:
Hoisting equipme
nt The high-capacity J-shaped equipment used to hang various
other equipment, particularly the swivel and kelly, the elevator
bails or topdrive units. The hook is attached to the bottom of the
Rotation equipme
nt traveling block and provides a way to pick up heavy loads with
the traveling block. The hook is either locked (the normal
Mud circulation e condition) or free to rotate, so that it may be mated or decoupled
quipment with items positioned around the rig floor, not limited to a single
direction.
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General

Hoisting equipme Drilling line:

nt
A wire rope hoisting line, reeved on
Rotation equipme sheaves of the crown block and
nt traveling block (in effect a block and
tackle). Its primary purpose is to hoist
Mud circulation e or lower drill pipe or casing from or
quipment into a well. Also, a wire rope used to
support the drilling tools.
Drill pipe & BHA

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Rig facilities Elevator:

A set of clamps that grips a stand, or
column, of casing, tubing, drill pipe, or
sucker rods, so the stand can be
raised or lowered into the hole.

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General

Hoisting equipme Rotary table:

nt
The revolving or spinning section
Rotation equipme of the drillfloor that provides
nt power to turn the drillstring in a
clockwise direction. The rotary
Mud circulation e motion and power are transmitted
quipment
through the kelly bushing and the
kelly to the drillstring. Almost all
Drill pipe & BHA rigs today have a rotary table,
either as primary or backup
Safety equipment system for rotating the drillstring.
Topdrive technology, which
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allows continuous rotation of the
drillstring, has replaced the rotary
table in certain operations. A few
rigs are being built today with
topdrive systems only, and lack
the traditional kelly system.

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General Kelly:
Hoisting equipme
nt A long square or hexagonal steel
bar with a hole drilled through the
Rotation equipme
middle for a fluid path. The kelly is
nt used to transmit rotary motion from
the rotary table or kelly bushing to
Mud circulation e the drillstring, while allowing the
quipment drillstring to be lowered or raised
during rotation. The kelly goes
Drill pipe & BHA through the kelly bushing, which is
driven by the rotary table. The kelly
Safety equipment bushing has an inside profile
matching the kelly's outside profile
Rig facilities (either square or hexagonal), but
with slightly larger dimensions so
that the kelly can freely move up
and down inside.
The kelly transfers rotary motion from the
rotary table or kelly bushing to the drillstring.
The upper diagram shows the interior fluid
path. The middle diagram shows the
Back hexagonal cross section. The lower diagram
shows the outside view of the kelly.

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General Kelly bushing:

Hoisting equipme
nt An adapter that serves to connect the rotary table to the kelly. The
kelly bushing has an inside diameter profile that matches that of the
kelly, usually square or hexagonal. It is connected to the rotary table
Rotation equipme
nt by four large steel pins that fit into mating holes in the rotary table.
The rotary motion from the rotary table is transmitted to the bushing
Mud circulation e through the pins, and then to the kelly itself through the square or
quipment hexagonal flat surfaces between the kelly and the kelly bushing. The
kelly then turns the entire drillstring because it is screwed into the
Drill pipe & BHA top of the drillstring itself. Depth measurements are commonly
referenced to the KB, such as 8327 ft KB, meaning 8327 feet below
Safety equipment the kelly bushing.

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General Topdrive:
Hoisting equipme
nt A device that turns the drillstring.
This is radically different from the
Rotation equipme more conventional rotary table and
nt kelly method of turning the drillstring
because it enables drilling to be
Mud circulation e done with three joint stands instead
quipment of single joints of pipe. It also
enables the driller to quickly engage
Drill pipe & BHA the pumps or the rotary while tripping
pipe, which cannot be done easily
Safety equipment with the kelly system. While not a
panacea, modern topdrives are a
Rig facilities major improvement to drilling rig
technology and are a large
contributor to the ability to drill more
difficult extended-reach wellbores. In
addition, the topdrive enables drillers
to minimize both frequency and cost
per incident of stuck pipe.

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General Swivel:
Hoisting equipme
nt

Rotation equipme A mechanical device that

nt must simultaneously
suspend the weight of the
Mud circulation e drillstring, provide for
quipment
rotation of the drillstring
beneath it while keeping
Drill pipe & BHA
the upper portion
stationary, and permit
Safety equipment high-volume flow of high-
pressure drilling mud
Rig facilities from the fixed portion to
the rotating portion
without leaking.

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General Kelly hose:

Hoisting equipme
nt
A large-diameter (3- to 5-in. inside diameter), high-pressure flexible
line used to connect the standpipe to the swivel. This flexible piping
Rotation equipme
nt arrangement permits the kelly (and, in turn, the drillstring and bit) to
be raised or lowered while drilling fluid is pumped through the
Mud circulation e
drillstring. The simultaneous lowering of the drillstring while
quipment pumping fluid is critical to the drilling operation.

Drill pipe & BHA

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General

Hoisting equipme Mud Pump

nt
A large, reciprocating pump used to
Rotation equipme circulate the mud on a drilling rig. A
nt typical mud pump is a double- or
triple-acting, two- or three-cylinder
Mud circulation e piston pump whose pistons travel in
quipment
replaceable liners and are driven by
a crankshaft actuated by an engine.
Drill pipe & BHA A mud pump also is called a slush
pump.
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Rig facilities
Bulk Mud Components in Storage
Hopper type tanks for storage of
drilling fluid components.

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General Desander:
Hoisting equipme
nt A hydrocyclone device that removes large drill solids from the
whole mud system. The desander should be located downstream of
Rotation equipme the shale shakers and degassers, but before the desilters or mud
nt cleaners.Various size desander and desilter cones are functionally
identical, with the size of the cone determining the size of particles
Mud circulation e the device removes from the mud system.
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General Shale shaker:

Hoisting equipme
nt The primary and probably most important device on the rig for
removing drilled solids from the mud. A wire-cloth screen vibrates
while the drilling fluid flows on top of it. The liquid phase of the mud
Rotation equipme
nt and solids smaller than the wire mesh pass through the screen,
while larger solids are retained on the screen and eventually fall off
Mud circulation e the back of the device and are discarded.
quipment Where it was once common for drilling rigs to have only one or two
shale shakers, modern high-efficiency rigs are often fitted with four
Drill pipe & BHA or more shakers.

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General Mud pit:

Hoisting equipme
nt
A large tank that holds drilling fluid on the rig or at a mud-mixing
plant. For land rigs, most mud pits are rectangular steel construction,
Rotation equipme with partitions that hold about 200 barrels each. They are set in
nt
series for the active mud system. On most offshore rigs, pits are
constructed into the drilling vessel and are larger, holding up to 1000
Mud circulation e
quipment barrels. Circular pits are used at mixing plants and on some drilling
rigs to improve mixing efficiency and reduce dead spots that allow
Drill pipe & BHA settling. Earthen mud pits were
the earliest type of mud pit, but
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environmental protection concern
has led to less frequent use of
open pits in the ground. Today,
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earthen pits are used only to
store used or waste mud and
cuttings prior to disposal and
remediation of the site of the pit.

Mud House: The place where mud additives are kept at the rig, also
known as the sack room.
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General

Hoisting equipme Reserve Pits:

nt
A mud pit in which a supply of
Rotation equipme drilling fluid has been stored. Also,
nt a waste pit, usually an excavated,
earthen-walled pit. It may be lined
Mud circulation e with plastic to prevent soil
quipment contamination.

Drill pipe & BHA

Safety equipment

Rig facilities Mud Gas Separator:

A device that removes gas
from the mud coming out of
a well when a kick is being
circulated out.

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General Desilterer:
Hoisting equipme
nt A hydrocyclone much like a desander except that its design
incorporates a greater number of smaller cones. As with the desander,
its purpose is to remove unwanted solids from the mud system. The
Rotation equipme
nt smaller cones allow the desilter to efficiently remove smaller diameter
drill solids than a desander does. For that reason, the desilter is
Mud circulation e located downstream from the desander in the surface mud system.
quipment

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General Flowline (mud return line):

Hoisting equipme
nt The large-diameter metal pipe that connects the bell nipple under
the rotary table to the possum belly at the mud tanks. The flowline is
simply an inclined, gravity-flow conduit to direct mud coming out the
Rotation equipme
nt top of the wellbore to the mud surface-treating equipment. When
drilling certain highly reactive clays, called "gumbo," the flowline
Mud circulation e may become plugged and require considerable effort by the rig crew
quipment to keep it open and flowing. In addition, the flowline is usually fitted
with a crude paddle-type flow-measuring device commonly called a
Drill pipe & BHA "flow show" that may give the driller the first indication that the well
is flowing.
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General

Hoisting equipme Stand pipe:

nt
A rigid metal conduit that provides the
Rotation equipme high-pressure pathway for drilling mud
nt to travel approximately one-third of the
way up the derrick, where it connects
Mud circulation e to a flexible high-pressure hose (kelly
quipment hose). Many large rigs are fitted with
dual standpipes so that downtime is
Drill pipe & BHA kept to a minimum if one standpipe
requires repair.
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Rig facilities Annulus:

The space around a pipe in a well
bore, the outer wall of which may
be the wall of either the bore hole
or the casing; sometimes termed
the annular space.

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General Rotary Drill Bits:

Hoisting equipme Rotary drilling bits usually are classified according to their design as
nt ”Fixed cutter bits(Drag bits)” and ”Rolling cutter bits”.

Rotation equipme
nt Fixed cutter bits:

Mud circulation e • PDC(Polycrystalline Diamond Compact) bit:

quipment
A drilling tool that uses polycrystalline diamond compact (PDC)
Drill pipe & BHA cutters to shear rock with a continuous scraping motion. These
cutters are synthetic diamond disks about 1/8-in. thick and about
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1/2 to 1 in. in diameter. PDC bits are effective at drilling shale
formations, especially when used in combination with oil-base muds.
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General Rotary Drill Bits:

Hoisting equipme
nt Rolling cutter bits (Roller-cone bits):

Rotation equipme A tool designed to crush rock efficiently while incurring a minimal
nt amount of wear on the cutting surfaces. As the drillstring is rotated, the
bit cones roll along the bottom of the hole in a circle. As they roll, new
Mud circulation e teeth come in contact with the bottom of the hole, crushing the rock
quipment immediately below and around the bit tooth. As the cone rolls, the tooth
then lifts off the bottom of the hole and a high-velocity fluid jet strikes
Drill pipe & BHA the crushed rock chips to remove them from the bottom of the hole and
up the annulus.There are to types of roller-cone bits:
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• Steel insert bits: • Carbide insert bits:
Rig facilities Application for soft formations Application for hard formations

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General Drill pipe:

Hoisting equipme
nt

Rotation equipme Drill pipe is a tubular steel conduit

nt
fitted with special threaded ends
called tool joints. The drillpipe
Mud circulation e
quipment connects the rig surface equipment
with the bottomhole assembly and
Drill pipe & BHA
the bit, both to pump drilling fluid to
the bit and to be able to raise, lower
and rotate the bottomhole assembly
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General Drill Collar:

Hoisting equipme
nt A component of a drillstring that provides weight on bit for
drilling. Gravity acts on the large mass of the collars to
Rotation equipme provide the downward force needed for the bits to
nt efficiently break rock.

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General Tool Joint:

Hoisting equipme
nt The enlarged and threaded ends of joints of drillpipe. These
components are fabricated separately from the pipe body and
welded onto the pipe at a manufacturing facility. The tool joints
Rotation equipme
nt provide high-strength, high-pressure threaded connections that are
sufficiently robust to survive the rigors of drilling and numerous
Mud circulation e cycles of tightening and loosening at threads. Tool joints are usually
quipment made of steel that has been heat treated to a higher strength than
the steel of the tube body. The large-diameter section of the tool
Drill pipe & BHA joints provides a low stress area where pipe tongs are used to grip
the pipe. Hence, relatively small cuts caused by the pipe tongs do
Safety equipment not significantly impair the strength or life of the joint of drillpipe.

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General Bottom hole assembly:

Hoisting equipme
nt The lower portion of the drillstring, Coiled tubing
consisting of (from the bottom up in a
Rotation equipme vertical well) the bit, bit sub, a mud
nt connector
motor (in certain cases), stabilizers, Check valve
drill collars, heavy-weight drillpipe, assembly
Mud circulation e jarring devices ("jars") and crossovers
quipment
for various threadforms. Oftentimes
the assembly includes a mud motor, Pressure
Drill pipe & BHA disconnect
directional drilling and measuring
equipment, measurements-while-
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drillingtools, logging-while-drilling Drill collars
tools and other specialized devices.
Rig facilities A simple BHA consisting of a bit,
various crossovers, and drill collars
may be relatively inexpensive (less
Mud motor
than $100,000 US in 1999), while a
complex one may cost ten or more
times that amount.
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General Blowout preventer (BOP):

Hoisting equipme
nt

A large valve at the top of a well that may

Rotation equipme be closed if the drilling crew loses control
nt
of formation fluids. By closing this valve
(usually operated remotely via hydraulic
Mud circulation e actuators), the drilling crew usually regains
quipment control of the reservoir, and procedures
can then be initiated to increase the mud
Drill pipe & BHA density until it is possible to open the BOP
and retain pressure control of the
formation. BOPs come in a variety of
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styles, sizes and pressure ratings. Some
can effectively close over an open
Rig facilities wellbore, some are designed to seal
around tubular components in the well
(drillpipe, casing or tubing) and others are
fitted with hardened steel shearing
surfaces that can actually cut through
drillpipe.

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General

Hoisting equipme
nt Choke Manifold
The arrangement of piping and
Rotation equipme
nt special valves, called chokes,
through which drilling mud is
Mud circulation e circulated when the blowout
quipment preventers are closed to control the
pressures encountered during a kick.
Drill pipe & BHA

Safety equipment

Rig facilities Accumulator:

The storage device for nitrogen
pressurized hydraulic fluid, which
is used in operating the blowout
preventers.

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General Derrick:
Hoisting equipme
nt The structure used to support the crown blocks and the drillstring of a
drilling rig. Derricks are usually pyramidal in shape, and offer a good
Rotation equipme strength-to-weight ratio. If the derrick design does not allow it to be
nt moved easily in one piece, special ironworkers must assemble them
piece by piece, and in some cases disassemble them if they are to be
Mud circulation e moved.
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General Mast:
Hoisting equipme
nt Mast is a portable derrick capable
of being erected as a unit, as
Rotation equipme distinguished from a standard
nt derrick, which cannot be raised to
a working position as a unit.
Mud circulation e
quipment This structure used to support the
crown blocks and the drillstring.
Drill pipe & BHA Masts are usually rectangular or
trapezoidal in shape and offer a
Safety equipment very good stiffness, important to
land rigs whose mast is laid down
Rig facilities when the rig is moved. They suffer
from being heavier than
conventional derricks and
consequently are not usually found
in offshore environments, where
weight is more of a concern than in
land operations.

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General

Hoisting equipme
nt

Rotation equipme
nt Catline Boom and Hoist Line:
A structural framework erected near the
Mud circulation e top of the derrick for lifting material.
quipment

Drill pipe & BHA

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Pipe Ramp
An angled ramp for dragging drill
pipe up to the drilling platform or
bringing pipe down off the drill
platform.

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General

Hoisting equipme
nt

Monkeyboard:
Rotation equipme
nt The derrickman's working platform. Double
board, tribble board, fourable board; a
Mud circulation e monkey board located at a height in the
quipment
derrick or mast equal to two, three, or four
lengths of pipe respectively.
Drill pipe & BHA

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Rig facilities Doghouse:

A small enclosure on the rig floor used as
an office for the driller or as a storehouse
for small objects. Also, any small building
used as an office or for storage.

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General

Hoisting equipme
nt
Electric cable tray
Rotation equipme Supports the heavy electrical cables
nt that feed the power from the control
panel to the rig motors.
Mud circulation e
quipment

Drill pipe & BHA

Engine Generator Sets

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A diesel, Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Rig facilities (LPG), natural gas, or gasoline
engine, along with a mechanical
transmission and generator for
producing power for the drilling rig.
Newer rigs use electric generators
to power electric motors on the
other parts of the rig.

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General

Hoisting equipme
nt
Fuel tanks
Rotation equipme
nt Fuel storage tanks for the
power generating system.
Mud circulation e
quipment

Drill pipe & BHA

Safety equipment Electric Control House

On diesel electric rigs, powerful
Rig facilities diesel engines drive large electric
generators. The generators produce
electricity that flows through cables
to electric switches and control
equipment enclosed in a control
cabinet or panel. Electricity is fed to
electric motors via the panel.

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General

Hoisting equipme
nt
Pipe Racks:
Rotation equipme
nt A horizontal support for tubular
goods.
Mud circulation e
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Water tank
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Is used to store water that is
used for mud mixing, cementing,
and rig cleaning.

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General Slips:
Hoisting equipme
nt A device used to grip the drillstring in a relatively nondamaging
manner and suspend it in the rotary table. This device consists of
three or more steel wedges that are hinged together, forming a near
Rotation equipme
nt circle around the drillpipe. On the drillpipe side (inside surface), the
slips are fitted with replaceable, hardened tool steel teeth that
Mud circulation e embed slightly into the side of the pipe. The outsides of the slips are
quipment tapered to match the taper of the rotary table.

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General Tong:
Hoisting equipme
nt The large wrenches used for turning when making up or breaking out
drill pipe, casing, tubing, or other pipe; variously called casing tongs,
Rotation equipme rotary tongs, and so forth according to the specific use. Power tongs
nt are pneumatically or hydraulically operated tools that spin the pipe
up and, in some instances, apply the final makeup torque.
Mud circulation e
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General

Hoisting equipme
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Rotation equipme
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General General information:

Hoisting equipme
nt
• Title: Drilling Equipment
Rotation equipme
nt • Author: Assoc. Prof. Pål Skalle

Mud circulation e • Assistant producer: Reza Rahmani

quipment
• Size: mb
Drill pipe & BHA
• Publication date: 2. January 2002
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• Abstract:
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• Software required: Power Point 2002

• Prerequisites: B.Sc

• Estimated time to complete: 150 minutes

About author

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General References:
Hoisting equipme
nt •http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/etools/oilandgas

Rotation equipme •http://www.glossary.oilfield.slb.com

nt

Mud circulation e •http://cap.estevan.sk.ca/

quipment

•http://www.idmequipment.com/
Drill pipe & BHA

Safety equipment •http://www.oogeep.org/Rhonda/drilling.htm

Rig facilities •http://www.bakerhughes.com/

•http://www.ectool.com/drillingsup.htm

•http://www.idsuk.com/Tech.htm

•http://www.nql.com/intro.html

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General About author:

Hoisting equipme
nt
Name: Pål skalle
Rotation equipme
nt Position: Associate professor at Department of
Petroleum Engineering and Applied
Mud circulation e Geophysics, NTNU
quipment

Address: Eidsvollgate 33, 7030 Trondheim,

Drill pipe & BHA
Norway

Safety equipment E-mail: pskalle@ipt.ntnu.no

Rig facilities Phone: 73 59 47 25

Web: http://iptibm3.ipt.ntnu.no/~pskalle

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